That’s weird as it’s the polar opposite for me a huge majority take they’re own bags but not just Sainsburys. I suggest you’re talking bollocks.

Nope. Why should I make it up?

It’s anecdotal of course and I can only comment on when I’m in there, but it’s pretty much every day at various times and been shopping there for years since it opened.

Similar is Tesco Express near work office. In there daily to pick up lunch. Very rarely I see other people with their own bag. Even Little Waitrose. Though both those are combined with fuel and most are picking up odd items as well as fuel. If they have a bag it’s a new one the shop provides mostly when I’m there.

Maybe it’s a Surrey thing though 🤷‍♂️ . It’s different in the big shops though. More the reverse.

The average household is buying 54 bags for life a year.

I call balls on that.

Not surprised at all.

Every time I go in my Sainsbury’s Local I never see anyone else bring their own bag. They pick up a “bag for life” every time. Sure they’re not the heavy durable ones but are the 10p reusable type which seems the main ones these days. Seen this in many other shops, though less so in the big shops where people make more of an effort.

Often the shop try to hide the bags at the self scan but the public moan and ask for bags.

If I go to the “person” checkout they instantly reach for a bag and are shocked when I present mine.

Much of the public don’t see it as an environmental duty or feel guilty picking a bag. They just see it as an annoyance of being charged for bags. While initially they may have cut back objecting to the charge, they’ve just accepted the cost. Higher price will do the same, then they’ll accept the new price.

The bags get thrown in the normal bin too. Seen that at work. Stuffed with rubbish and just chucked in the waste. Perfectly good new reusable bag. Though the amount of recyclable stuff I see chucked in regular waste at work is shocking. I see it with neighbours too. Some attitudes are it’s too complicated or don’t have time to separate out (really is dead easy), some just don’t care or think it’s all a scam or why should they do the job they think the council should do instead.

Grew up in Dawlish, went to school in Teignmouth. Yeah, the hill out of either is a big climb. Though not impossible. Used to climb up to Little Haldon on the road as a lad. But of a trek to Haldon itself though.

Problem off road is like a lot of Devon, there’s a lot of private land not accessible and you have to go a fair way to get to decent stuff or live in awkward places.

There’s a coast cycle path Dawlish to Exeter and think to Exmouth now. Also plans for one along the Teign estuary and if the railway thing goes ahead, Dawlish to Teignmouth.

Key areas I know of are Dartmoor, Woodbury, Haldon, cheeky Haldon, and something near Haldon cafe related 😏, Tavistock / Plympton way stuff.

And yeah Ashcombe did races long ago, but they’ve been reviving them for mini DH recently. Private land again.

https://instagram.com/ashcombeminidh

Beginners area – 5 x mellow trails with rollers, tiny jumps & drops and berms. Great for novices and kids.

About my limit then 😄

Exactly the same as the OP. Browse Amazon for the least pointless things for people to waste money on.

It’s not that I’m rich and have everything I want, I just don’t have a need to fill my house with consumer items that will not get used or get thrown out.

Even dvd, blu ray etc, I just don’t do shiny discs these days apart from the odd few. I won’t get round to watching them for years anyway if at all.

Anyway, all I want is no mention of Christmas until a week before, no bloody secret santa. Just relaxed time with family, not fussed on gifts, done and then hide for New Year (pointless drunken noisy celebration of the Earth’s cycle around the sun).

Humbug.

If it’s a one off fee it may be better than regularly creaming off the pension investments like my IFA does for arranging and advice he initially gave (okay, technically I can still call on his advice but in the main it’s all managed by the provider company and an annual questionnaire now and doesn’t involve him. He still makes a nice sum from it though).

Obviously, assuming you’re a UK citizen, there’s Brexit to consider at least. Then there’s Catalonian independence stuff.

MTB and nice surroundings, food and culture may outweigh any of this though.

He doesn’t even have a name in the book.

Anyway,the idea was to mix in references to Wells’s real life at the time, hence George, and talk about divorce and hooking up with Amy. Soap opera stuff that has nothing to do with the book or story.

As a note, BBC didn’t make this. ITV’s Mammoth Screen made it partly on behalf of the BBC. It’s distributed globally and on DVD/Blu Ray etc by ITV.

Not that the BBC aren’t capable of producing crap themselves.

Anyway, bit here about the gender bias or agenda that explains the switch to a female lead and naff male characters because a book in the 1890s is obviously unfilmable with a male lead and no female parts of note.

https://spectator.org/the-war-of-the-woke-hollywood-turns-on (gloss over reference to Hollywood. Pretty sure BBC and ITV aren’t based in Hollywood).

Heating on all day can work if your house is well insulated and full of thermostats. It should result in rarely coming on, just odd top up of heat. Same in the evening when occupied.

Technically it’s not really “on” most of the time that way.

Edge or Edge Chromium?

The latter is replacing Edge in Windows and is based on Chromium that Google use for Chrome, just without the Google hooks and has Microsoft hooks instead (ties to MS account etc).

Performs better than Chrome at the moment. I found Chrome was getting bloated.

Edge Chromium in preview at the moment but in my opinion it’s production ready as a browser. As a replacement for old Edge it lacks a couple of things but it has extensions for many and you can use Chrome extensions also (basically same things just different store).

Never heard of Brave.

Of false alarms, office I’m at had alarm go off recently and came down to the vape of an e-cig setting it off. E-cigs now banned in the office.

Old thread and was originally about the bike shop and cafe closing. Well they opened again under new ownership. However the new cafe owner is thinking of selling up.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=411716006165320&id=109365689733688

Still going to be millions if not billions unclaimed as so many just weren’t aware and the pressure from claims companies put people off.

I believe there was a case that essentially resulted in a presumption that all PPI was mis-sold. At that point they should all have been declared illegal and everyone’s money refunded, not leaving it to individuals and greedy claims companies.

And yes, I missed the deadline despite all the adverts. Busy, presumption I had none, refusal to go with a claims company so enquiring was looking like a faff. Meant to do it last minute but things came up and never got done.

Meanwhile BBC thinks Prince Andrew story is more important.

Loads of tower blocks cladded like this still exist and more are going up. Nothing will change under Boris.

AliExpress I’d be very cautious about. Chinese state sponsored retail site for knock offs.

eBay, maybe, if the listing is a company, better if UK based and has a web site you can check on, check the company is genuine etc, good reputation also but that can be faked. Even UK listings can be selling fakes. Import cheap from China, small mark up for profit. Sometimes supposedly UK based listings are set up by Chinese companies anyway.

Depends on the part. If it’s just something generic, unbranded and can’t really go wrong or not a disaster if it did and it’s cheap then I may go for it. Sram/Shimano brand stuff I stick stick with UK stores or maybe France/Germany (bike-discount.de, bike-components.de etc).

Shingles?

Call Shaky.

You’ll be haunted by the ghost of Jobs if you use fake ones.

Snowflakes – just applies to anyone offended by anything. Doesn’t matter the generation. It’s just the modern attitude that absolutely everything could be offensive and judgement should be made by social media (they did an episode of The Orville based on that).

Anyway, Gen X so I get to moan at old and young. Though mostly just moan at myself at how crashing on bikes hurts a lot more than it used to but I still have to work to pay the bills.

Copper grease on BB threads as they get super tight and seize on. SRAM at least advise grease, but I prefer copper grease.

Cassette lock ring, copper grease and torque to spec.

Cranks, bearings, headsets and just about anything else that needs regular grease, then marine grease.

Hub internals (pawls, ratchets etc), light bit of oil. Some may spec specific formula, but light suspension oil or similar does me fine.

Lubing shock wiper seals externally, shock / suspension oil, pump and wipe off.

Carbon assembly paste for attaching stuff to bars, same with seat posts in frame (even if not carbon, still helps reduce torque necessary. Ali + carbon more so to reduce galvanic reaction potential).

Loctite on things that shouldn’t move but I only apply it to low toque items. Pivot bolts, chainring bolts etc. Anything that can rattle off. Huge 40Nm torque stuff like cassettes, cranks (GXP type), BBs, no. They spec grease often anyway. They aren’t coming off if you torque them properly.

And watch out with Loctite and torque wrenches. The torque spec might be without thread lock or specs a specific thread lock and using any or different stuff can change the torque requirements. I’ve snapped pivot bolts because of that.

Surrey Hills isn’t a place for doing ‘loops’ – spiders webs, maybe 🤣

You can do loops. Just they can be a bit epic. Unless it’s loops sessioning some downhills, then most likely it’s loops around Pitch Hill.

What do you load those route maps onto? Do you get directions like a sat nav even when off road?

Depends on the device and whether the route has turn indicators embedded in them (I’m not too hot on these things, but I gather that’s what you need rather than just a plain GPS).

However the nature of off-road, singletrack and random paths can be tricky to follow even with turn directions. Three options ahead in the same direction of the arrow, which is it? Followed plenty using Garmins trying to navigate and then it’s “no, wrong way, turn around” and waiting while the device catches up. It’s easier if following rights of ways though as the device will lock onto them on the map. If the device has maps.

Still, the popular SH singletrack is all around the Peaslake, Pitch & Holmbury Hill area and just ask around, explore and look for trails and follow them. A sense of direction or ViewRanger, Trail Forks etc on the phone helps. At least for plotting where you want to go.

Big loop… Nirvana Killer Loop used to be a good one.

p.s. Once you’ve set up an account in Komoot and are riding in a particular area, it starts throwing suggested routes. Not sure if you can also just tell it where you’re interested in riding.

Stock GXP Team. Last me a good few years these days and cheap at £20-30.

Never see why people have problems unless they’re not tightening the crank bolt enough.

Though I still also put an o-ring on the drive side in the space between crank face and the dust cap, but they seem to stay in place better now.

Anyone from this year got their carried over tickets yet?

Last email I had said we’d get print at home tickets on 1st Nov automatically by email.

Annoyingly to change team name, had to be done by then also and a) forgot, b) got no idea who I’m riding with yet if anyone. Probably won’t until month or two before.

Local-ish to me. I’ve probably seen him on the road and not paid much attention and just thought “some old guy on a bike”.

That’s an average of just under 15,000 miles per year for 67 years!!

I’ve only done 15,000 over the last 10 years!

Off road though and that’s from GPS stats where I wasn’t tracking so much in the first few of those 10.

God knows what I’ve ridden before that. I wasn’t MTBing though, just road since a kid until then, and wouldn’t be much. Mostly in my teens, then got lazy.

Best I’ll manage is maybe 100,000 by 80 (if I managed to make it that far, and it’ll probably be e-assisted by then)

A million! 😮

Most impressive.

Following his story on FB last few years and thought although it was a tragic event he shows great courage and a positive attitude. Made me think if I, a friend or family member was in the same situation, there may still be hope for a future.

Then I read this yesterday and it hits home how hard it really has been. Was a hard thing to read and can only hope he finds peace and thoughts to his family and friends.

As already said, it’s sad his comments about issues with care.

Have used carbon bars for years and never worry about clamping stuff to the bars. Lights are no different.

I use carbon paste for proper clamps. A rubber band attachment, wouldn’t worry at all.

My Four4th light has proper clamp for light and battery. I do it up fairly secure else it can slip on a ride. Not a scratch on the bar and doesn’t worry me at all.

They’re just bars. Don’t worry about them.

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Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

Is the driver down the bottom just regular driving or sports related?

If the former, I’d place him right way above most activities there. Though the percentages based on 1000 hours seem a bit iffy.

Whats the definition of downhill you are using, and what would qualify? It might not be suitable for a national or international DH race, but it’s uplifted trails created specifically for and used exclusively by bikes at an “official” venue.

When BPW opened they were clear it’s not a DH venue. It’s a bike park. In fact, take a proper DH bike to BPW and see how you struggle (I know friends who have and said never again). Antur Stiniog on the other hand is more like it.

I know old school DH has been shoved aside in favour of “park” and Enduro bikes, so big 200 travel dual-crown DH bikes are a rarity these days. Even DH venues have been shifting to flow trails and freeride features rather than the flat out steep DH.

no more huge muddy off camber bomb hole.

Shame. That sounds like fun.

You must be the only person in the world moving out of Euros and in to Sterling!.:-)

Rate is good for Euro to Pound. Depends when / how you got the Euros though and whether you’ll transfer back in the future.

Got a pile of travel cash from years ago and worth a lot more in £ now than when I bought them, so may cash it back. Though if I’m going to buy more or use a card for another trip it’s not worth it as rate and fees will lose me money vs just keeping the cash in Euros and spending them.

No. But I’ve laid in a pool.

Still waiting to Boris to lie down in a ditch. Though I’m certain he’s lied in many polls.

I read that as way more pedestrians than cab drivers are killed and maimed, by cyclists 😄

Other than the skills area for the Hub near The Lookout, only work I know of is in tidying up and reworking existing trails around Labyrinth area, and Camel Run etc will get a make over I believe. That area being adopted officially.

Other than that there’s a bunch of logging going on.

Issue I’ve had with Spotify is I’m a whole album guy, I don’t really do random tracks or playlists from this and that, and I find due to rights issues sometimes one or two tracks on an album are missing because of who they’re credited to.

Though mostly I still buy CDs, rip to FLAC and stream from my NAS (and for good enough for phone, MP3 versions on OneDrive and I use Cloud Player to stream/download from there).

May have to pay more money to the artists perhaps, and they’d rather pay as little as possible.

There may be reluctance from studios with HD lossless formats if they’re not DRM protected. So offline downloads may need to be protected from copying. Not sure what Spotify do there. Even with streaming it’s probably a limited market given the vast majority listen on a phone. Many kids just use the crappy speaker on the phone.

Amazon may be trying to find things that distinguish their service as they’re not going to compete with Spotify just on the regular music (though I use it as I’m already paying for Prime and get no ads. Less content but enough that I don’t want to pay for a Spotify sub on top of everything else).

If some see the emoji (to give them the correct name) but some see squares or blank space, then it’s generally down to font support on the browser and/or OS.

Forum shortcuts where you put the text equivelant will convert to the relevant character, though some forums use their own icons for them. Emojis from your computer / phone get inserted as unicode characters but depends on the font support. If they’re very common ones they’re more likely to be covered by fonts in most browsers. Some rare ones maybe less so. They do tend to render differently on different OS though.

Anyway, Windows 10 shortcut…

Windows Key + ;

My NAS has a 1TB USB drive attached which does a weekly backup (though 4TB NAS but 3TB is storage, 1TB redundant, plus part is OS and then actual data I want to keep fits well within 1TB). On top of that OneDrive 1TB sync, but then that’s a bit like RAID as it’s only as good as the data in. That said, with 365 Business you get history (not sure about consumer).

Ditto PC backups which I use File History for. Those are backing up to the NAS with file history, and that NAS itself is backed up.

Fire / theft etc, then yeah I’m dependent on OneDrive.

Bucket loads of things these days are online data anyway and backed up by each of the relevant services. I find far less need for storage at home.

Stuff for my business, as it’s software development, gets backed up in GitHub and similar services, plus I have repository on my NAS, local repository on my desktop, in the client office when I’m there and on my tablet. If the client’s server’s blow up and they’ve lost all backups, I’ve still got entire repository backup of the stuff I’m working on in various locations. That’s the neat thing about git. No dependency on a central server.

Even documents about the house like Land Registry stuff, deeds etc, are all available online via Land Registry etc. Bank gave me the stuff years ago and said because it’s all online they don’t store them any more.

Ticket transferred also. Though would like an option to swap event if necessary. At moment Billy No Mates in Sport as everyone else went with the main enduro or Intro / Marathon. Though I don’t want the gnar-pace of the main enduro. Not sure though. I did enjoy the Sport previous year.

Seat angle not sorted by just adjusting the seat angle on the post?

Or just the seatpost angle steep meaning it’s too far forward? Potentially the frame was a bit short for you?

Other than that, I’d admit on my TR I get the pedal strikes at times, but then I get that with my Santa Cruz 5010. Low BBs are the norm. I’m guessing 29ers though tend to be a bit higher naturally.

Anyway, probably a 29 fits you better. I find them a bit big for me as I’m not that tall or long armed/legged. I love the TR. Rollability with big wheels has advantage once you’re rolling but I do like a bit of quick acceleration and it does the job much the same at speed. I go back to my 26 occasionally and quite surprised how quick I can go on it as my legs are used to cranking it up, so same power and it’s off like a shot. Though the Bird is more agile (same with my 5010).

had not considered cloud storage, is that not going to be REALLY slow? (we have whatever the fastest non-fibre internet is from BT, even so, not super quick to upload/download big files). Although if it were stored locally & also mirrored to the cloud, that could be useful.

OneDrive works as a mirror. Local stored, syncs to the cloud. You can also specify which files/folders are stored locally or cloud only, but you see them all and it will download them if necessary. Handy for archive stuff you don’t need local.

With Office 365 sub, you’ve got 1TB of storage and it’s one of the most flexible in that it doesn’t really care what you put in it and won’t mess with your files.

With 365 for business you’ve got Exchange also for email, and various other things depending on the subscription (Teams, Sharepoint etc). If it’s a small business, take a look at Microsoft Action Pack for a cheap way of getting loads of server software, OS, 365, MSDN and Azure (if you’re into development). Again, 1TB storage and that’s per “seat”.

NAS – Synology gets my vote. It’s more than just a network drive. It’s a mini server. Loads of apps you can run on it, web server, email if you like etc. You can backup to it via Windows File History and similar things for Mac I believe. Synology also have their own stuff for backups and a private cloud type thing. Though it’s not a cloud, it’s just like cloud storage but on your NAS. You can also get the NAS to then sync to a proper cloud service.

Don’t bother using old desktops etc as servers. They’re noisy and waste a lot of power compared to a decent NAS. Plus from experience, left on 24/7 they suffer. HDDs in consumer desktops aren’t designed for 24/7 use and I’ve had a couple of PSUs go bang in a puff of smoke running one as a server.

SSDs – use them for your OS in laptop/desktop/whatever. That’s where they perform best. Makes a massive difference compared to a spinning disc. In a NAS, far less so. Though again 24/7 the discs wear out, but they’re cheaper. Decent RAID set up with at least one redundant disc so you can swap one when it dies.